The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-04

pose OF instltuting proceedings Ire resolution
WAS adopted.
Local and state Notes
The c., l.. St. l.. & G. people have five con-
struction trains on the line filing tressles and
regraveling the road bed.
George r. Nicholson has been appointed gen
eral passenger and ticket agent Of the Atchison,
Topeka 81 Santa Fe system, vice W. F. White,
promoted.
After a sharp and very creditable fight the l.,
b. a. w. has surrendered to the trunk lines and
acceded to the request not to pay commissions to
their ticket agents.
At all the ticket Offices on the c., Fl. & d.
lines the Stromberg coupon form OF ticket Is
being substituted for the Davis ticket. But few
roads now use the latter.
The INDIANAPOLIS e. St Louis management will
commence the filing of all tres;les between In
dianapolis and Terre Haute. including the APP
proaches TO the bridges, this week
II. c. Orr has been promoted to general South
western passenger agent of the Hannibal & ST.
Joe and the Kansas City, ST Joe 81 Council
Bluffs railroad, with headquarters at Kansas
City.
G. c. Gilmore has been appointed agent of the
c., II. & L.. at College Corner, and VIM. Espey,
of Rushville succeeds Mr.. Gilmore at Corners
VILE Z. Fritts succeeds Mr.. Espey at Rush
vile.
Washington township Pike county, Indiana,
has voted $10,500 in aid of the Vincennes d Ohio
River road This township after lengthy litl-
CATION has just paid the last of like appropria-
ton voted to the Evansville & Indianapolis road.
The earnings of the l., d. & S. road for April
fall below those of April, 1885, some $1,000. But
once before, in any month since the present ~ an
agement took hold, have the earnings dropped
below those of the corresponding month OF the
preceding year.
G. E. Briggs, superintendent of the stock
yards at St Joseph, Mo, has resigned, TO take
the position of assistant engineer on the Ohio d
Mississippi road. His special work will be the
supervision of the new shops the company Is to
build at Washington, Ind.
some of the local ticket agents are, as here
tofore, offered vouchers their sales of tickets
over the Western lines, which still paying
commissions, but most of the vouchers
turned, receiving commissions would be
grounds for their dismissal
In the month of April "a. ITO, 100 pounds of
freight handled at the city freight depots
Of the Pennsylvania lines, representing 2,6l2
carloads of freight. The corresponding month,
1886. 81 1876 1872 pounds were handled, represent
ing 2579 carloads of freight.
wolcott & Wright, of this city, yesterday
received order from the chief engineer of the
New York Central road for ten carloads of South
ern pine cross-tes, to be filled at once. This
company proposes to test the wearing qualities
of Southern pine in cross-ties.
The Terre Haute car works last week COM
pleted their contract to build go box cars for
the c.. II. e. D., and this week begin on 500 cars
for the Chicago 81 Northwestern road. Last
week these works turned out ninety-six cars, the
largest number ever built at the works in
week.
Tho election in Wayne township, Henry
county, for an appropriation of per cent. tax
for the Cincinnati, Wabash g. Michigan railroad
was held yesterday and resulted in the tax being
voted by three hundred and fifty majority Cars
will be running through Knightstown by the LIST
of August
Division Freight Agent Fuller, of the Penn
sylvania lines west of Pittsburg. has resigned
and will be succeeded by Frank Dickerson. chief
clerk for Assistant General Freight Agent Nc
Cabe. Mr.. Dickerson began railroad life in In
dianapolis and for long time was chief clerk for
j. "A. Perkins.
ID 49, c. 7 r.
at Lawrenceburg Junction, mas peen appointed
city ticket agent of this road in rhe company's
Vine and Fourth street office, Cincinnati f. c.
Zimmerman, of Batesville. succeeds Mr. Rolte
at the Junction, and Fl. NJ. Simpson succeeds
Mr.. Zimmerman at Batesville
The L., N. A & c. people have dropped the
name Airline for their division between Indi-
annapolis and Chicago. assigning as reason that
whenever accident occurs on another road in
the State, which also bears the name of the Air
line it is invariably cent over the country as
occurring on the L., n. A. 81 G. Airline
The indianapolis car works turned out but 800
cars last month, but they were all heavy stand
ard box cars, requiring much more work than
the ordinary box car. Yesterday the works
began on the tract to build $50 box cars for the
Merchants Despatch The trucks under these
cars are as heavy as those used under passenger
coaches.
A veteran general passenger agent said yes
terday that the Eastern lines would carry their
point the commission question, and sixty
days from now a few trunk lines in the East and
ness. and the less important roads will have only
business enough to justify them in running one
or TWO local trains over their lines.
Jesse Gray, who for some years was a passen-
ger conductor the Indian apolis q ST. Louis
road and who became partially paralvzed. and
is now a iagman on the l.. E. 81 w. tracks, is
one of the fortunate ones. Some years ago he
purchased three hundred and sixty acres of
ground in Kansas which is so near the location
Of a boom" to make it very valuable. and he
has been offered handsome sum for the prop
erty.
In the month of April the Bee-line carried
81. per cent of the east -bouLd business out of
Indian apolis; the c.. St. L. & p, % g. the c.,
l., St. L. q G, 10 the C.; H & L. Z; the L.,
Lake Erie Sc Western. B. The unfavorabe
exhibit shown by the latter is due to the fact
the L. +. a. w. cannot carry business via De-
troit or Toledo. which shuts them off from the
Grand Trunk line.
Mr. Van Dorstan, of South Bend, has in
vented an automatic car-coupler. which he has
exhibited to the superintendent of motive power
of the Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg,
and he writes Mr. Van Dorstan as follows: 1t
is certainly the most ingenious coupler have
examined and theoretically it is a perfect de-
vice. 1t will couple automatically with the link
or pin now in general use, and Will couple with
one Of it's own kind on n vertical plane. l ex-
tend every encouragement to you as you have
certainly shown more originality IN the solution
Of the self-car- coupler problem than any in
ventor have thus far met"
A. A. Talmage general manager of the Wa
bash, Western, road, has issued order to the
effect that in order to insure greater safety of
life and limb TO the travelling public and to the
employees, the company and after June
j. 1887, will require every conductor engineer
and fiagmen to carry a watch of a certain stand
ard of excellence, and shall have his watch ex-
amined by the companys examiner three
months. A recent examination of the watches
of the trainmen on an Eastern road showed that
46 per cent OF them were unreliable, and one
engineer of a limited express train was found to
be carrying a 81 Waterbury watch.
General and Miscellaneous.
The employees of the c., NJ. & St. p. road, in
the shops at Minneapolis. have formed n real